FBI Internal Probe Finds Errors in FISA Warrants D
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Posted On: 12/23/2020 11:59:57 AM
FBI Internal Probe Finds Errors in FISA Warrants Didn’t Undermine Cases
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-internal-pro...1596127762
The FBI said Thursday that errors found in the files of dozens of applications to monitor Americans suspected of having links to foreign intelligence or terrorism didn’t ultimately undermine those applications, disclosing the results of a review sparked by mistakes identified earlier this year.
In March, the Justice Department’s inspector general said his office found “apparent errors or inadequately supported facts” in the files meant to provide factual support for the information cited in more than two dozen Federal Bureau of Investigation applications. The requests sought wiretapping authority from a special court under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA.
The inspector general had chosen several dozen applications to review as a sample, and found errors in the files of all of those he sampled, the March report said. Those results had pointed to possible widespread problems at the FBI, including sloppy record-keeping by case agents, and they suggested that the shortcomings previously found in the highly scrutinized requests to surveil former Trump campaign aide Carter Page weren’t limited to that case.
The FBI and the Justice Department then reviewed those additional applications identified by Inspector General Michael Horowitz. In a statement issued Thursday morning, the FBI said the agency told the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in a Wednesday filing that “in its judgment, none of the errors that had been identified…undermined or otherwise impacted the validity” of the court’s orders granting the surveillance.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-internal-pro...1596127762
The FBI said Thursday that errors found in the files of dozens of applications to monitor Americans suspected of having links to foreign intelligence or terrorism didn’t ultimately undermine those applications, disclosing the results of a review sparked by mistakes identified earlier this year.
In March, the Justice Department’s inspector general said his office found “apparent errors or inadequately supported facts” in the files meant to provide factual support for the information cited in more than two dozen Federal Bureau of Investigation applications. The requests sought wiretapping authority from a special court under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA.
The inspector general had chosen several dozen applications to review as a sample, and found errors in the files of all of those he sampled, the March report said. Those results had pointed to possible widespread problems at the FBI, including sloppy record-keeping by case agents, and they suggested that the shortcomings previously found in the highly scrutinized requests to surveil former Trump campaign aide Carter Page weren’t limited to that case.
The FBI and the Justice Department then reviewed those additional applications identified by Inspector General Michael Horowitz. In a statement issued Thursday morning, the FBI said the agency told the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in a Wednesday filing that “in its judgment, none of the errors that had been identified…undermined or otherwise impacted the validity” of the court’s orders granting the surveillance.
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